News that covers Rugby League in Australia.
In a great game of football the Melbourne Storm cemented their place as one of the most dominant teams of the modern era by beating the Parramatta Eels 23-16. The sellout crowd of 82,538 saw a classic Grand Final with momentum changes, precision play, rampaging runs, a great comeback and a cool as you like…
The Melbourne Storm will take the field in their fourth successive Grand Final after a dominant 40-10 victory over the Brisbane Broncos in front of 27,000 fans in Melbourne. The game never really reached any great heights and as I suspected, once the Broncos came up against a real top of the line outfit they…
The Parramatta Eels have booked a place in the 2009 NRL Grand Final with a hard fought 22-12 win over the Canterbury Bulldogs. The game started terribly for the Bulldogs with Luke Patten leaving the field with concussion from an accidental knee and it seemed from there Bulldogs were dropping like flies! David Stagg, Ben…
The Brisbane Broncos will face off with the Melbourne Storm for a place in the NRL Grand Final after seeing off the St George/Illawarra Dragons in Brisbane. The Broncos come out breathing fire and really put the Dragons on the back foot early. With the Broncos forwards stepping up, their star backline was able to…
The Gold Coast Titans were taught a very harsh lesson during the 2009 NRL Final series. A very good regular season means nothing and you can whinge all you like, all that matters is the scoreboard at the final siren. The Parramatta Eels completely dominated the Titans for the full 80 minutes. Their forwards were…
Jason Taylor has been sacked by South Sydney and it was pretty much the only decision they could possibly make.You can’t have your coach being involved in rubbish like that. The appointment of John Lang as the new coach for the next two seasons doesn’t sit real well with me. Lang got into a role…
After being bundled out of the Finals series in what turned out to be a pretty embarrassing year for the club, the Newcastle Knights have found themselves in more hot water. The Knights have been fined $5,000 for strapping on Richie Fa’aoso’s arm that caused abrasions to Bulldogs players in last weeks game at Sydney’s…
I’m sure that for the first week of meeting Wendel Sailor, he is a nice enough bloke. Friendly, a decent enough player, he can get you coke at the drop of a hat, hey, its better than being a team mate of Julian O’Neill. However after that first week the attention seeking must get very…
If you play with fire, you’re gonna get burned, and I can think of 278,146 better things to do than wind up a pissed off Kiwi with a history of snotting people that are getting on his nerves. Mad Monday is always a fun time for NRL clubs. They get destroyed on the drink, act…
Well now its time to have a look at my own team, how they are going, what chance they have of making the finals and what chance they are of winning the Grand Final. Penrith is terribly coached. Really terribly coach. Their game plan is very loose, their defense is terrible, they have poor discipline…
Let me set the scene… The media is at a St George/Illawarra Dragons training session and they are looking for a few quick sound bites from a player or the coach heading into the clubs big clash against the Brisbane Broncos. The club could put any number of people forward, but this time they offer…
Last night Brisbane Broncos suffered the worst loss in the clubs history, a 56-0 thrashing by the Canberra Raiders down in the national capital. You’d had to see it to really understand how terrible the loss was. Canberra led 16-0 at half time and looked to be beating the Broncos quite comfortably. The Raiders have…
Remember when the Newcastle Knights made the decision not to re-new Matthew Johns playing contract? Johns was coming towards the end of his career and the club felt it wanted to go in another direction. So they announced that they would no re-sign Johns, and all hell broke lose. It upset fans, it upset the…
Talk about something coming from out of the blue! If you haven’t hear yet, Brad Fittler will be relieved of his coaching duties at the Sydney Roosters at the end of this season and he will be replaced by Newcastle’s current coach Brian Smith. This all happened so quickly that Knights players found out via…
You know if you look back over the last decade, all these teams and players who go out and act up, it always comes back to bitch them in the arse. The Roosters are feeling the pinch in this regard lately as news comes through of another off field incident regarding someone within their club…
Watching Jarryd Hayne’s performance over this State Of Origin series has made me think a lot about the players in our game that are natural leaders. The amazing thing about Hayne is that, 12 months ago, he was a very different person. A good athlete, a great player, but off the field he was starting…
The Sydney Roosters are in dead last place on the NRL ladder and its not looking like they will get any better any time soon. The side has completely given up, they are carrying millions in bad contracts and the players they hoped would kick on never have. The one area the Roosters have looked…
Stop, wait, stop what you are doing right now! The Broncos just haven’t had a good training session for a while so we are all going to just stop what we are doing and wait until they are ready to play ok. Yeah….right…. Its funny how Brisbane have always felt that the world revolves around…
See what I did there? So Joel Clinton is talking to a girl in Melbourne for some time and when he finds himself down there he hooks up with her in the teams hotel before the match against the Storm. Two adults engaging in consensual sex, sounds normal. However by doing this Clinton has breached…
Its a rare club that one can never, ever leave. In fact it was so rare that until recently there was only one member. Now, Nate Myles has shat his way into Rugby League folk law. It not eye gouging, its not drug taking, its not foul play ever even being a poor player. Its…
The Brisbane Broncos registered Tonie Carroll on Monday with the NRL and have named him on an extended five man bench for this weekend match against the New Zealand Warriors. No, I’m serious! The Broncos are on a bad losing streak and are out of the top 8 after a few months of terrible football,…
There is a bidding war right now going on for the services of St George/Illawarra prop Juston Poore with a few clubs throwing around ridiculous amounts of money for his services. The best part is that Poore is rumored to be leaning towards taking a massive offer from the Sharks, who have no money, but…
Its be a great month for the Cronulla Sharks and it has only gotten worse today. Its been revealed that forward Reni Maitua has Tested positive to a banned substance. The test was taken three weeks ago and while some media reported that it was for either Cocaine or Ecstasy, Channel Nine and the Daily Telegraph are…
Some dirty bastard takes a picture of Willie Mason having a piss, and he is the one that gets fined. Imagine what thats like for a moment, to know that you can do somnething a bit silly and wake up the next day, not only to find it splashed all over the front page of…
The Cronulla Sharks made a very tough decision when they decided to move half of their home games to Gosford. The Cronulla Sharks, more than any other team in the NRL, are a club thats very much grounded in its local area. They call its “The Shire”, and for many years the area turned up…
The Penrith Panthers today extended Matthew Elliott’s contract through to the end of the 2011 season, despite the fact the highest position the clubs has finished under his coaching is 12th place. In charge of a club that has a wealth of talent, one that hand picks the best players from the worlds biggest junior…
There is a lot of talk lately about the poor form Darren Lockyer finds himself in early this season. While the Broncos have been a bit up and down this year, despite the fact they keep finding a way to win, Lockyer had really only shown a few glimpses of his usual for and thats…
I’ve always been a fan of Terry Campese. Even when he was struggling, I felt like he had what it takes to be a very handy player. To go from possibly being without a club in the middle of last year to making the 2008 World Cup squad was an amazing rise. He’s still raw…
So its Penrith at home hosting the Brisbane Broncos. The Broncos are one of the hottest teams in the NRL, sure they have played ugly at times, but they have also played the most outstanding football in the 2009 season as well. So to start the game Penrith look dangerous. They get a penalty 5…
The Warriors can never just settle, they always have to have something going on. We won’t go over history because we’d be here for years, so lets just look at 2009. The team is set. They had an amazing run in the 2008 finals, they got within one game of the NRL Grand Final, many…